We'd need a little more information about your setup and testing results in 
order to provide some form of response:

Q) What OS are you running? (uname -a)
Q) What system do you have (Laptop/Desktop Make & Model)
Q) What network cards do you have in the system (ifconfig -a)
Q) What wifi router/modem do you have?

When you say "Wifi is slow" please define what you mean by slow?  What tests 
are you doing to quantify the 'slowness'?

As you probably know, wifi depends on the environment and distance from the 
router/wifi hot spot.  Any obstacles will reduce the signal strength thus 
giving you degraded performance.  "[pfexec] dladm show-wifi" will give you the 
current wifi speed between you and your wifi hotspot.  

Have you tried doing some speed tests when connected via wifi and when 
connected via the cable?  If so what differences do you see?  
http://www.speedtest.net/ is just one of many out there.

Another test would be to download a large file (DVD ISO for example) either 
from the internet or from another system on the local network.  This will test 
sustained throughput and give you a good indication of the true speed of your 
network.  Obviously when using a local host you'd expect faster speeds using 
the LAN connection Vs the Wifi.

"ping -s <remote_host>" is always a good test to understand the round trip 
times of packets.  If you choose a host out on the internet and run the ping 
tests over your wifi and LAN connections what response times do you get?  Any 
dropped packets?  What response times do you get when pinging your default 
gateway?

"traceroute <remote_host>" is another good test to show where the delays are.

"netstat -in" will show any errors on the interfaces so it's worth keeping you 
eye on that whilst doing the tests to see if any of the error counts are 
increasing.

If you're not already on the latest OS release I'd recommend upgrading and see 
if the problem remains.

Hope this helps.
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